Why not just doc.tags.forEach(function(t) {emit(t,1)})
Then do a POST query to the view with {"keys":["holiday", "camping"],
"include_docs":true}
Wrote this code on my iPhone so I hope it's correct. :)
On Sunday, July 25, 2010, J Chris Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Jul 25, 2010, at 10:18 AM, Joe Bloggs wrote:
>
>> I have been impressed with couchdb so far but I have now hit the first
>> problem
>> that I cannot see how to resolve easily.
>>
>> I have a few test documents with a photo attached to each. I want to tag
>> these
>> photos so I have a field called tags. This tag field may contain 1 or many
>> tags.
>>
>> For example:-
>>
>> [ "holiday","camping"]
>> or
>> ["holiday","skiing"]
>>
>> I can easily create a view that allows me to search the tags with
>> ?key="holiday"
>> however I cannot work out how to select photos which contains both tag1 and
>> tag2.
>
> the simplest way to do this is with 2 view queries, and compute the
> intersection.
>
> the other option is to emit the tags list in all possible permutations (you
> can cut them down a bit if you only emit them sorted by alpha order). this
> will make a much larger index, especially if docs tend to have more than 3 or
> so tags.
>
>>
>> Any guidance would be appreciated.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Robin
>>
>>
>
>
